Improvement in water-wheel cases



JAMES. RANEY, OF NEWCASTLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent N 0. 107,624, dated September 20, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-WHEEL' CASES.'

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it 'may concern Be it known that I, J AMES RANEY, of Newcastle, in the 'county of Lawrence and in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water-Wheels; and do hereby declare that the followingisa full, clear, and exact description thereoreference being had to the accompanying draw,- ing and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The nature of. my invention consists in an improvement in the means vof applying and operating guidinggates vto the cases of water-wheels, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which luy invention appertainstomake and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing,in which- Figure ,'1 is'a side view, and 4 j Figure 2 is a horizontal section of a portion of the casing and outside rim and gates. A

A represents the casing ofa water-wheel, constructed in any of the known and usual ways, and provided with chutes B B.

C is the outside rim, provided with the gates D D, which, when the rim is turned in one direction, close the spaces between the chutes, and when turned in the opposite direction, open the said spaces.

The rim Gis, on its upper edge, provided4 with up'- lhe casing may, by means of said rollers, be turned very easy in either direction.

`The outer ends of the gates D D are curved outward, as shown in iig. 2,.so that, when shutting the gate's,'the water will press 'on the inner sides of'- said curves, andV assist in closing them. Having thus fully described my invention,

VVha-t I claim as uew,'and desire to secure by Let-A ters Patent,- is- A V'lhe arrangement, with the casing A, having chutes B B, of the4 rim C, suspended by the rollers G, and supported by ascending hooks or ears E E, and. provided with the outwardly-curved gates D, alleenstructed to operate substantially as shown and described. In testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of July, 1870.

JAS. RANEY.

Witnesses:

A. N. MARR, C. M. ALEXANDER. 

